De-Google Your Life - Part 1
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    5mo ago 100%

    I think it's not a good idea to leave links to Piped instead of YouTube (same for Nitter/Twitter, Libreddit/Reddit, etc.). If you want to avoid YouTube, then just install LibRedirect extension or similar. Piped links are temporary, they'll break sooner or later, making it difficult for people to get to the website.

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  • Twitter is fully X.com now.
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    5mo ago 100%

    "All core systems are now at X.com", so why opening x.com links in private window redirects to https://twitter.com/x/migrate?tok=, then again to x.com? I just cannot describe how stupid this is.

    As others have noticed, it drops an error: "Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com". The link has ?mx=2 parameter. I removed it and the page loaded correctly (but half of the viewport was clumped with banners). I tried again in a new private window, but never saw this error again, so this is a bug due to the aforementioned redirect.

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  • arstechnica.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14413882

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    YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    6mo ago 96%

    Sounds like trouble for Newpipe, Sponsorblock, etc...

    SponsorBlock isn't affected at all, as I understood after reading an article. Why did you mention it?

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    Youtube uuhhhhmmmm 6mo ago 100%
    YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly
    www.androidauthority.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146 > > A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there's a little something different with the look of the website.

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    Maybe consider matrix instead
    Google Play Store listing apps installed from F-Droid that it cannot update
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    7mo ago 92%

    But Google is likely trying this dark pattern to sway people away from F-Droid or alt stores by making users uninstall these apps and install it from the Google Play Store.

    No, it's the security measure. Anyone can use existing package ID. If the user installs a different app with the same package ID as the other, that new app just overwrites the old app and will have access to the sensitive data of it.

    F-Droid apps are built and signed by the people at F-Droid. Apps from Google Play and GitHub are built and signed by the developers themselves. You can update Google Play apps from GitHub and vice versa. That's why I use Obtainium over F-Droid.

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  • obsidian.md

    The Obsidian canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources. https://jsoncanvas.org

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    Youtube uuhhhhmmmm 7mo ago 100%
    YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google
    www.bleepingcomputer.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13000986 > > YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. > > > > This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tips on what to watch. > > > > As noted by some on X, users who have cleaned their search and watch history or turned off their history settings also see no suggestions when they're logged in. > Some people think YouTube is being pushy about this, trying to make users turn on their history settings.

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    What is being done to make Flatpaks better integrate into the system
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    9mo ago 88%

    The problem with "org" part. We'll never have org.gnome and com.gnome packages. Some apps have io.github.foo.bar. This entire thing is also case sensitive, so I have to guess is org.gnome.epiphany right name or org.gnome.Epiphany.

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    Youtube uuhhhhmmmm 9mo ago 94%
    YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*

    crossposted from: https://szmer.info/post/2199842

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    Ecosia plants 200 million trees
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    9mo ago 91%

    They integrated AI chat which is using OpenAI technology. So they're paying for ChatGPT API instead of spending this money on trees? And doesn't running generative AI consume a lot of electricity?

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  • developer.thunderbird.net

    And for Android release as well: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/android-roadmap

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    Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?
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    uuhhhhmmmm
    9mo ago 100%

    Depends on whether you're going to install apps from the official F-Droid repository or not. Third party F-droid repos (like IzzyOnDroid) are not affected by this.

    Suppose you have some app (a hypothetical Lemmy app) installed from the official F-Droid repo. You logged in an account, changed some settings. Then the developer announces an update: new features, bug and security fixes. It is published on GitHub and Google Play. F-Droid version will come after a few days, when the maintainer builds the app from source and publishes that update.

    You may don't want to wait till update comes to F-droid. But you can't install it from GitHub or Google Play, because it is signed by a different key. You'll have to reinstall the app, which will erase your settings and require logging in again.

    This is the hassle you probably may encounter in the future. If you want to avoid it, install official packages from the developers (from GitHub or Google Play). Obtainium can check for updates on GitHub, official and third-party F-Droid repos, and more.

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  • Probably unpopular opinion, but recently i found infinite scrolling being very addictive. I would like to scroll about 50 posts (might be customizable), then click a button to load more, like in Voyager.

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    We have Tokodon for Mastodon and NeoChat for Matrix, but KDE app for Lemmy is missing here. Are there any plans for making one? There are already some GTK clients, but they are not looking well on KDE Plasma.

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